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HOME GROWN FOODSTUUS

... diced potatoes, then baked. Cheese grated over this dish improves the flavour. June 11, 1940 For the Young Folks HEROIC DUNKIRK Dunkirk, like Calais, once belonged to Britain though only for four years. Oliver Cromwell captured it in 1658, but in 1662 Charles ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1474 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

War Summaries from Day to Day TUESDAY, June 4 It was officially announced that the casualties in Monday's raid on

... several private houses were hit by explosive bombe. The War Office intimated that the evacuation of the Allied forces from the Dunkirk area bad been successfully completed during the night. The outstanding success of the operation which must rank as one of ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 794 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The Local Defence Volunteers When Britain was Formerly Threatened A Souvenir of the Boney Scare The formation ..

... the war with Britain to a quick conclusion by invading England. He dispatched 120,000 veteran troops to th..; coast between Dunkirk and St Valery with his own headquarters at Boulogne, where the white cliffs of Dover were actually in sight. The Channel ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 412 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WM. BLACK & SON, Ltd

... of bedding, utensils, itc. Among the 'boys from the village who were with the B.E.F. and reached this country safely via Dunkirk were three gunners— Frank Low, Wilson Martin and John Wilson. All three joined the Territorials last year and went to France ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 636 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Hitler's Great Beast

... ordered flags to be flown for a week throughout Germany, and bells to be rung for three days, to celebrate the capture of Dunkirk after heavy fighting and the victory of the German soldiers in the greatest battle of all times. In a few weeks over 1,200 ...

Published: Tuesday 11 June 1940
Newspaper: Brechin Advertiser
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1466 | Page: 8 | Tags: none